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Routing Information Service
RIPE NCC RIS
Michela Galante | 02-05-2022 | LAC Peering Forum

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Michela Galante | LAC Peering Forum| 02-05-2022
What is RIS?
• RIS is a routing data collection platform
• Collecting BGP data since 1999
• Up-to-date routing information, as
opposed to information in databases and
routing registries, such as:
- What is being announced
- Which prefixes are seen and where
- Which ones are not seen
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23 collectors
1377 global peers
THANK YOU TO OUR COMMUNITY

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Michela Galante | LAC Peering Forum| 02-05-2022
RIS Collectors
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Collector Location IXP Deployed Removed Collector Location IXP Deployed
RRC00 Amsterdam Multi-hop 1999 RRC13 Moscow MSK-IX 2005
RRC01 London LINX 2000 RRC14 Palo Alto PAIX 2005
RRC02 Paris SFINX 2001 2008 RRC15 Sao Paulo PTT-Metro SP 2006
RRC03 Amsterdam AMS-IX 2001 RRC16 Miami NOTA
2008
RRC04 Geneva CIXP 2001 RRC18 Barcelona CATNIX 2015
RRC05 Vienna VIX 2001 RRC19 Johannesburg NAPAfrica JB 2016
RRC06 Tokyo DIX-IE 2001 RRC20 Zurich SwissIX 2015
RRC07 Stockholm Netnod 2002 RRC21 Paris FranceIX 2015
RRC08 San Jose MAE-West 2002 2004 RRC22 Bucharest
InterLAN 2017
RRC09 Zurich TIX 2003 2004 RRC23 Singapore Equinix SG 2017
RRC10 Milan MIX 2003 RRC24 Montevideo LACNIC multi-hop 2019
RRC11 New York NYIIX 2004 RRC25 Amsterdam RIPE multi-hop 2021
RRC12 Frankfurt DE-CIX 2004 RRC26 Dubai UAE-IX 2021

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Michela Galante | LAC Peering Forum| 02-05-2022
Why collect BGP data?
• The Internet routing system doesn’t have in-built security
mechanisms
• Better visibility = greater security = lower risk of a BGP hijack
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Michela Galante | LAC Peering Forum| 02-05-2022
Who is RIS for?
• Network operators, policy makers
- To check specific routing incidents
- To troubleshoot Internet routing
- To develop future plans based on routing trends
• Researchers
- To investigate notable events occurring in the Internet (i.e. network disruptions in
specific countries, Facebook outage, etc)
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Michela Galante | LAC Peering Forum| 02-05-2022
Interconexión en BGP en la región de América Latina y el Caribe
• https://imasd.lacnic.net/es/interconexion/interconexion-bgp-en-lac
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Michela Galante | LAC Peering Forum| 02-05-2022
How can you use RIS?
• Available as:
- Raw data
- Live stream (RIS Live)
- Whois query interface (RISwhois)
• Visualisations available in Inforedes/Enrutamiento
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Michela Galante | LAC Peering Forum| 02-05-2022
More tools to use RIS
• Others have developed tools based on RIS data
• bgp.he.net / bgp.tools
- These services use RIS data and provide a dashboard with various aspects of the
Internet routing system.
• BGPalerter
- This software monitors RIS data in near real-time to detect route hijacks and other
incidents.
• Internet Health Report and IODA caida
- These research projects uses RIS data to build experimental views using Internet
routing data.
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Michela Galante | LAC Peering Forum| 02-05-2022
BGP Growth – Number of Prefixes
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Michela Galante | LAC Peering Forum| 02-05-2022
RIS Growth – Number of Peers
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Michela Galante | LAC Peering Forum| 02-05-2022
Negative Effects of Growth
• More data does not bring more diversity in routes
• More peers bring more noise in the data
• More input data causes bigger delays for output data
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Michela Galante | LAC Peering Forum| 02-05-2022
Planned Improvements
• Pipeline improvements (shorter delays for output)
• Peering coordination:
- Diversity encouraged
- Increasing coverage in RIPE NCC region and others where visibility is low
• Higher multi-hop capacity
• Metadata for our multi-hops collectors
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Michela Galante | LAC Peering Forum| 02-05-2022
Distance from LAC Countries
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https://www.ris.ripe.net/cgi-bin/peerreg.cgi

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Michela Galante | LAC Peering Forum| 02-05-2022
Come peer with us!
• We are inviting representative networks in the LAC region to
peer with RIS!
• CO, CL, AR, PY, EC, PA, CU, GT
- Send us a peering request
- Provide full feed when possible
• Goals
- Better routing visibility and more security for
- Your network
- Your country
- The Internet
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ASN 12654
Traffic profile mostly balanced
Traffic Volume 0-20Mbps
Peering Policy Selective
Peering Locations
(IX or POP)
• RRCs at 23 locations globally: https://www.ripe.net/analyse/
internet-measurements/routing-information-service-ris/ris-
peering-policy
• RRC24 - LACNIC, Montevideo (UY) - Multihop
• RRC15 - PTT-Metro SP, Sao Paulo (BR)
PeeringDB entry as12654.peeringdb.com
Contact information ris-peering@ripe.net
Michela Galante: mgalante@ripe.net
Marco Giuliani: mgiuliani@ripe.net

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